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Many believe planned investment will bring prosperity, while others worry its debt-fuelled exuberance will backfire The global investment spree in artificial intelligence is producing some remarkable numbers and a projected $3tn (£2.3tn) spend on datacentres is one of them. These vast warehouses are the central nervous system of AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and …

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When courts ban people from accessing leaked data – as happened after the airline’s data breach – only hackers and scammers win Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It’s become the playbook for big Australian companies that have customer data stolen …

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The internet has been rumbling about autocorrect for years – and now AI is changing how the technology works Don’t worry, you’re not going mad. If you feel the autocorrect on your iPhone has gone haywire recently – inexplicably correcting words such as “come” to “coke” and “winter” to “w Inter” – then you are …

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Dutch-controlled company informs customers about suspension but is said to want to de-escalate trade war Nexperia, the EU-based automotive chipmaker at the centre of a geopolitical dispute, has suspended supplies to its Chinese factory, stepping up a trade war that threatens to halt production at carmakers around the world. The company wrote to customers this …

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Can these earphones, with less cost and stigma than real aids, be a gateway for millions with untreated hearing loss? Sign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things I didn’t think much about it when I asked my partner to repeat herself. But then I did it again. …

How do Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 compare against hearing aids? I put them to the test Read More »

It’s not just what we hear and see that scares us, according to those behind many of video gaming’s modern horror classics The sound came first. In a San Francisco Bart train tunnel, Don Veca took his recorder and captured a train’s metallic roar – “like demons in agony, beautifully ugly,” he remembers. That recording …

Inside the secret psychology of horror games – and why we can’t help pushing play Read More »

Amazon Web Services (AWS) sees 20% increase in revenue year over year, topping Wall Street estimates Amazon has made its first financial disclosures since the disastrous outage suffered by its cloud computing division that brought everything from smart beds to banks offline. In spite of the global outage, Amazon Web Services has continued to grow, …

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The Times thought they were interviewing ex-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio. They were actually talking to a wine importer It was a hell of a scoop. Here was Bill de Blasio, the progressive former mayor of New York who has been an enthusiastic supporter of Zohran Mamdani, suddenly turning on the man whom many expect …

Will the real De Blasio please stand up? A lesson from a UK newspaper’s gaffe Read More »

ChatGPT developer is considering filing for an IPO by the second half of 2026, according to reports OpenAI is reportedly gearing up for a stock market listing valuing the company at $1tn (£760bn) as soon as next year, in what would be one of the biggest ever initial public offerings. The developer behind the hit …

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Tim Cook forecast 10% to 12% revenue growth in the quarter ending in December, typically Apple’s biggest of the year Apple reported its first quarterly earnings since the release of its new lineup of iPhones on Thursday, beating Wall Street analysts’ expectations. The company showed steady financial growth and a strong bottom line despite slow …

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